Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco

Tales of San Francisco. A bit on the long side but colorful.

I don't really see the complaint though: this is one case where the many videos did come out and helped understand what was going on. No, video doesn't solve everything but yes, clearly it's the abundance of video that allows framing the story here. It's easy to feel that it would be too much work to round up useful video (it does seem to be a lot of work) and most video would be already deleted - but no, it did work.

Buried in there is the shocking "The district attorney ended up going through with the charges against Doty after all, and didn’t charge Carmignani in any spray attacks." and the mix of [the police showed up - and not much more] and [the judge shocked at the lack of action by the police].

It did work but the situation in that neighborhood is unchanged: a major nuisance from mostly just a couple persons.